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Issue 22

Spring 2024

EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS

STEPHEN DELANEY
Hauntings (A Sutured Tale)

MUKETHE KAWINZI
Three Songs From the Field

KAT MEADS
X Marks the (Landing) Spot

ELIZA SCUDDER
Yoga Teacher Training

MARY SENTER
Latchkey Kid: A Tryptic

POETRY

LAINE DERR
A Dozen Hoops
A Letter to F

CANDICE M. KELSEY
This Tender Dwelling

PATRICK KINDIG
the calling
Winter Poem

DAVID KIRBY
Ode to the Bomb-Test Era
Ode to the F-Word

KATE POLAK
Trickster Gods of Appalachia

FICTION

MICHAEL FOY
Until Someone is Named

KATIE KNECHT
The Exam

KIRBY WRIGHT
At the Rolfer’s

STEPHEN WUNDERLI
The Birdwatcher

HUINA ZHENG
The Matchmaker’s Daughter

CREATIVE NONFICTION

SARAH BRENNAN
Radical Participation: An Introvert Goes to Burning Man

ELISSA GREENWALD
The Sand Hills of Cape Cod

NATHANIEL LACHENMEYER
My Best Friend Steve

TANIA A. MARRON
The Circle

MARY ANN MCGUIGAN
Come Into the Parlor

MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS

The Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction: Young Rader
A Bit of Green Apple, A Bit of Rotten Meat

The Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers: Adina Jeremiah
Dark Sparkle Beneath Ivory Waves

MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Millicent Borges Accardi’s Quarantine Highway
Reviewed by Collin White

Lisa Ampleman’s Mom in Space
Reviewed and Interviewed by Ashley Rutland

Ryler Dustin’s Trailer Park Psalms
Reviewed by Jennings Collins

Kristen Gentry’s Mama Said
Interviewed by Keyona Hughes
Read an Excerpt of the Title Story

Chrisopher Kennedy’s The Strange God Who Makes Us
Reviewed by Natalie Mudd

Amy Lee Lillard’s Exile in Guyville
Reviewed by Corey McQueen

Ellen Birkett Morris’s Beware the Tall Grass
Reviewed and Interviewed by John David Morgan

VISUAL ART